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Important to say: although I do not understand why I'm being treated this way, I am very grateful for VLC and allthe work that the team put into it! It is precisely for this reason that I have tried to report this problem.

I really tried, but the ticket has been closed again, and I got a warning as if I had reopened the ticket without justification. I did give an explanation, but that was removed and also my question for an explanation why. Maybe I do not have enough knowledge and did something wrong, but than just te...

I have reopened the bug report https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/9858. Because I think $-variables are not working.

I got a reaction right away here https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/9858: "I think the documentation is clear. --marq-marquee accepts time expansion, not meta expansion". I think he is right, seems logical. I think my confusion started because it worked in older editions, and in the adva...

The bug report https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/9858 was closed again. Reason: "The ticket is closed because there is no bug. VLC works as documented: ​https://wiki.videolan.org/index.php?title=Documentation:Format_String&oldid=26476 I read it over and over, but I can't find how to get ...

Thank you RolandOnline for testing and communicating on https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/9858 about re-opening (as it is closed again).

Maybe the people who experience the same problem, can add this to the bug report https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/9858 ?

Of course me too would like to know how to get this working.

I filed to bug reports, using the information Tintifax (thank you!) gave.
https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/9858
https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/9859#ticket

When I read this https://wiki.videolan.org/Report_bugs, I think maybe I can file a bug report for the variables , but I am wondering if I need more knowledge. About the active Xplugin I do not have any knowledge.

Thank you for your explanation. I understand it better now. Because I have no knowledge and experience and it is all trial and error to me, the reason it doesn't work in my VLC 2.1 can be that I am not doing it right. But as Tintifax tried and experienced the same kind of problem, it could well be b...

broken then?

I don't think I understand. What do you think could be broken?

I am not sure what you mean. Do you mean that it is possible to take automatically constant snapshots and display them into the movie right away? It's a creative solution! I found that I can take screenshots automatically, but further I did not find this possibility. But maybe I did not search long ...

Thank you for you quick reaction! This command line vlc.exe --sub-source=marq{marquee=%H:%M,color=16777215,position=8} dvd:///F:/ or C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe --sub-source=marq{marquee=%H:%M,color=16777215,position=8 is not working. I also do not see the time of the day anymore. I ...

I am trying to display (overlay) the time of the day and the elapsed and total time of a video in VLC 2.1. As I could not get VLC to remember effects after restart, I searched how to do this with a command line. I managed to display the time of the day using this string: C:\Program Files (x86)\Video...